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  1. Preoccupations: Our work (so far) this year

    Going to talk to those pupils was great fun and this describes how incredibly lucky and clever they are. Very impressive (David and them, not me).

  2. Home ‎(Barbican restaurants‎)

    Wiki for restaurants local to the Barbican.

  3. MediaShift . Can Crowdfunding Help Save the Journalism Business? | PBS

    I had this great idea… turns out it’s far from original, but it still sounds good. (via Haddock)

  4. Doodle: Easy Scheduling

    Another way to arrange group events. (via Haddock)

  5. Meet With Approval

    “Work out which day is good for everyone and keep track of who is coming…” Great idea, but I wonder if it works in practice. (via Haddock)

  6. ‘I will e-mail the BBC to object to “Thought for the Day”’ - PledgeBank

    I’d have signed up if I’d heard about it in time.

  7. Rands In Repose: The Nerd Handbook

    A worrying amount of that seems to fit.

  8. Slashdot | Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution

    And why most of us entrusting our creative output to third-party sites is a bad idea. (via Lee)

  9. Television Tropes & Idioms - Home Page

    Big wiki cataloging “devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members’ minds and expectations”. Big, big time sink.

  10. Bandwagon update - Bandwagon Forum

    I thought I’d check out how that iTunes music online backup software was doing and found this exercise in failing to manage users’ expectations. 14 months of “it’ll be ready soon…” Ouch.

  11. Happy New Year by Electrabel - Fubiz™

    Stunning stop-frame animation advert done with thousands of candles. Watch it. (via Drawn!)

  12. Girls who eat their feelings, girls who don’t eat anything… | Ask Metafilter

    List of scenes from movies that explain the different cliques within a school. Looking forward to the YouTube compilation.

  13. ColorBrewer Intro - Selecting Good Color Schemes for Maps

    Handy tool for making color ranges for use on maps, via that Oakland Crimespotting heat maps post.

  14. Oakland crime maps XI: how close, and how bad? (tecznotes)

    Thought process on making heat maps out of the Oakland Crimespotting data. (via Simon Willison)

  15. MadAlfred’s WFRP Page

    Mad Alfred appears to be the pre-eminent creator of extra material for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.

  16. Liber Fanatica Homepage

    Four user-created booklets for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.

  17. Winds of Chaos » Downloads

    More Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay stuff. Critical Hit charts made by doctors — got to be good. Plus conversions for the Enemy Within Campaign to WFRP2.

  18. Warpstone magazine - Downloads

    Lots of handy downloads for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.

  19. Strike to Stun

    Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay site: weblog, downloads, forum.

  20. Fantasy Flight Games [Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay - Products]

    Current publishers of WFRP. Catching up on this after twenty years is a lot of fun.

  21. Seriously considering Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (2nd edition) - EN World D&D / RPG News

    Long discussion mostly on what’s good about WFRP and why WFRP2 is better than WFRP1. Also, suggestions for what supplements are most useful.

  22. Big list of Django tips (and some python tips too) | Surfing in Kansas

    (via Blech)

  23. How Django processes a request

    (via Blech)

  24. Kiva - Loans that change lives

    I was trying to remember the name of this micro-loans site the other day and today it popped up on Cool Tools.

  25. Cnewton.com: List: Starbucks Terms of Art

    A list of jargon used by Starbucks employees. Industry phrases always fascinate me but… how about explanation of what they mean? (via Waxy)

  26. Hedged down: Practical Django Projects

    For future reference if/when I have a look at this book, updated code examples. (via Blech)

  27. 10 Insanely Useful Django Tips - NETTUTS

    I like insanely useful tips. Just dipping my toes in Python at the mo so this may come in useful. (via Blech)

  28. Improve your jQuery - 25 excellent tips

    Lots of handy tips for people like me who have only dabbled in jQuery so far. (via Infovore)

  29. Shoemakers.org.uk - Roosters

    I got a pair of boots from Roosters over twenty years ago and (after a long time of not wearing them) I still like them.

  30. West End Whingers

    I’m enjoying this blog’s theatre reviews. Intelligent but down to earth and nothing too obscure.